GRAVEN, an upcoming first person shooter/puzzler from Slipgate Studios, takes the latter approach.  In this spiritual successor to Hexen 2, you'll be exploring three separate regions for villagers to help, secrets to find, and monsters to slay.  To accomplish these tasks, you're armed with numerous weapons and spells, which can be upgraded as you see fit.  The game sports a late-90s retro aesthetic that's been all the rage recently, which you can see for yourself in the reveal trailer below:

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